RNS Quote of the Day — 06/05/08

“Colonel Johns… looked across at Bond.

‘[It’s] one of the new Savage 99Fs, Weatherby 6-by-62 scope, five-shot repeater with twenty rounds of high-velocity .250-3000. Lightest big-game lever-action on the market. Only six and a half pounds. It belongs to a friend… won’t miss it if it doesn’t turn up. It’s been tested and it’s okay up to five hundred [meters]…. Single-pull, and it’s a hair-trigger. Keep your finger off until you’re sure you’ve got him. And keep outside three hundred if you can. I guess these men are pretty good themselves. Don’t get too close.’ …

His other hand went to Bond’s shoulder. ‘Our Commissioner’s got a motto: Never send a man where you can send a bullet… So long, Commander.'”

–Ian Fleming, “For Your Eyes Only,” 1959.

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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Tomorrow’s Soundboard will include a variation of this track that kicks ass and takes names much better than the 1969 original.

However, I find that I still prefer this 1982 version (produced by –wait for it — Phil Ramone), especially when cranked to high bass-thumping volume. The horns!!!! Ohhhh yeahhhh.

Available on the album James Bond Greatest Hits.

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Starting to get a clue

And as much as the local progressive-istas like to whine about the Thomas-Scalia-Alito-Roberts quadrafecta on the SCOTUS, if they have children in the Seattle School District, they should be happy about this development.

Integration is no longer Seattle School District’s top priority

When it came to voluntary school-integration efforts in the late 1970s, Seattle Public Schools was at the forefront. In 1978, Seattle became the first large urban district in the nation to undertake a desegregation plan without a court order to do so.

Today, however, Seattle district leaders appear resigned to living with the resegregation that’s occurred over the past three decades.

Resegregation, they say, is a societal problem too big for the district alone to solve.

Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson hopes Seattle residents see the value of living and going to school with people from a wide mix of backgrounds. But she says she can’t change where people live. And as much as she values racial diversity, she values high-quality schools more.

A quality education, she says, “trumps diversity.”

No shit. It took 30 years of destroying children’s futures and a Supreme Court decision to figure this out?

Ladies and gentlemen, that is what a college indoctrination will get you: Regret that a school district cannot make education the #2 priority.

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My only regret in this

Is that this sick bastard will have his death added to “Gun Death” statistics

A former Forest Grove schools superintendent charged with molesting a 7-year-old girl died after a self-inflicted shooting Monday afternoon at his home in rural Washington County.

Irvin Nikolai, 71, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 40700 block of Northwest Otis Lane. His wife told authorities that Nikolai was cleaning several guns when one discharged.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, but detectives do not suspect foul play, said Sgt. David Thompson, a sheriff’s spokesman.

Why can’t these dirtbags just castrate themselves and bleed out?

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RNS Quote of the Day — 06/04/08

On Hillary and her “concession” speech:

We haven’t heard the last of her, and I’m glad.

I’m looking forward to her becoming a distaff Harold Stassen, haunting every Democratic primary from 2012 to the crack of doom.

I’m chuckling evilly just thinking about it.

— “Malvolio” in comments to That Ain’t Any Kind of Concession Speech I Ever Heard Of

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He Has Mad Skilz

…at sewing. Remember the words from the Heinlein quote on my Survivalblog shirt?

Well, sewing isn’t listed as one of the Sacred Skills by Heinlein or Jeff Cooper, but IMO it should be. Definitely useful and necessary when SHTF, if only when one needs to suture self.


Look what the Packing Rat sewed up: a carry bag for his M6 Scout!
I myself can’t sew worth a darn (heh) but I do intend to rectify that eventually.

Check out the ‘Rat’s M6 Scout Review, btw — an excellent informative writeup with great pics. All that a gun review should be, and more.
Now here’s hoping he’ll take advantage of Joe’s amazing Boomershoot Gun Blogger Day offer and show up for Boomershoot in 2009. I’ve managed to convince Squeaky to join us, Derek, now it’s your turn….

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NO, I WILL NOT COMPLY! PERIOD!

I still haven’t figured out how to post a YouTube video

Update: Got It

No surprises to any readers of this site, but that’s beside the point. Great stuff.

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I Knew It

What Kind of a Western Bad-Ass are You?
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You scored as Lee Van Cleef.

You look like an accountant, but your steely glare and matching nerves make you a match for any hard-case out there.

Lee Van Cleef
 
88%
Clint Eastwood
 
75%
Charles Bronson
 
63%
Lee Marvin
 
63%
John Wayne
 
50%

Col. Mortimer is my favorite character in the entire Spaghetti Western canon, and Angeleyes ain’t far behind.

h/t Clint Eastwood, I mean, Heartless Libertarian.

I’m guessing Phil scores as Charles Bronson. From Once Upon A Time In the West.

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June is Boomershoot 2008 Photo Month

Okay, I’ve been really remiss in getting my Boomershoot pics online and organized. So I figure I’ll do a pic each day in June; that should take care of things. Of course, I’m already three pics behind. So here ya go. The first two pics are by RNS Staff Photographer Dave from Michigan. As always, click to embiggen.
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Pic for June 1st: Boomershoot Range Officers.

I think that’s Joe’s daughter Kim at left. Not sure about the other two folks.

Notice the portable balcony seating for spectators behind them. Comfy and a great view!
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Pic for June 2nd: A view of the line. Big-sky country, indeed! Note the flag at left.

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Pic for June 3rd: My Flag is Bigger than Your Flag. Yep, only in Idaho — this fellow planted a full-size American flag on a flagpole mounted to his pickup bed. So the flag flew all day at Boomershoot 2008!

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Excellent News!

No, not the Heller decision. That’s coming soon, though….

Shooting Sports will now be in the Gay Games

About three weeks ago, a Pink Pistol member of the Gay Games committee convinced the rest of the committee to incorporate shooting sports in the gay games; the vice president vetoed it on ideology grounds. Then, ironically enough, the Europeans stated that they would withdraw their support unless shooting sports were incorporated into the Gay Games.

I don’t know which events will be held, but I do think this will go a long way towards having firearms become accepted in urban gay culture.

Quote by tboyer, fellow Calguns member and spokesperson for the San Francisco chapter of Pink Pistols.

[I made minor grammatical edits to his post; the original was in this Calguns thread.]

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